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Norway travel

How vegan friendly are Northern Lights cruises?

2015-01-09 by Aleksandr Shatskih

crociera fiordi norvegesi© Lsantilli

Traveling to Norway to see the Northern Lights can be an extraordinary experience. The colors of the aurora borealis are absolutely mesmerizing in winter; main shades are usually green and yellow, but they can also become reddish-violet. The show lights up the sky and the whole phenomenon will make your travel experience even more enticing. […]

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Norway Hotel Workers To Strike Monday

2014-05-07 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Øystein Olsen

In Norway, unionized members of the hotel- and restaurant branch have decided to walk of the job next week. A general strike that will affect nearly 70 hotels there is scheduled just as the country prepares for Bicentennial celebrations.

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The Best of Norway: Real Places, People, and Things

2011-06-17 by Phil Butler

Ålesund, Norway, aerial view

Are recent trip to Milan proved more fruitful than we could have imagined when to our surprise Italy was made much cooler by a Nordic blast. I am not referring to the arctic winds from crisp Scandinavia either, but of great people from a place not many will have heard of. What you are about to read will hopefully be as pleasant a surprise for you as Norwegians Frode and Yvonne Aass (image below) were for us.

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